[Python-Dev] 2.4 news reaches interesting places

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> The other thing we can do is finish the portable backend for psyco
    >> and make it a standard module.  Then Python won't be slow, it will be
    >> compiled, and py2exe will be able to make a single-file executable.

    Armin> You probably mean that Psyco can dynamically compile Python
    Armin> bytecodes even if they have been hidden into an .exe file by
    Armin> py2exe.

I didn't read it that way.  My impression was that py2exe be modified to
include and enable psyco if it's available when building an .exe.  You
would, in theory, get a single file distribution as well as dynamic
compilation.

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